note 47297 added to function.pow
| From: | janklopper dot AT dot gmaildot dot com at osu1 dot php dot net | Date: | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:26:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 47297 added to function.pow | ||
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since pow doesn't support decimal powers, you can use a different sollution,
thanks to dOt for doing the math!
a^b = e^(b log a)
which is no the 10log but the e-log (aka "ln")
so instead of: pow( $a , 0.6 ) use something like: exp( 0.6 * log($a) )
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